diff --git a/package/python-configobj/Config.in b/package/python-configobj/Config.in
index cb9d914745..365aa17fcb 100644
--- a/package/python-configobj/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-configobj/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ
 	bool "python-configobj"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SIX # runtime
 	help
 	  Config file reading, writing and validation.
 
diff --git a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash
index b173f0cdd7..682dc987f1 100644
--- a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash
+++ b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/configobj/json
-md5  496b60edcd943a900ddc0cb04132e81c  configobj-5.0.9.tar.gz
-sha256  03c881bbf23aa07bccf1b837005975993c4ab4427ba57f959afdd9d1a2386848  configobj-5.0.9.tar.gz
+md5  8dda7b31bb3aea87ecfe3b7a87812b17  configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz
+sha256  6f704434a07dc4f4dc7c9a745172c1cad449feb548febd9f7fe362629c627a97  configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256  fd227649f1956788444397bf0899e977140a5bc662d86826657bc2aad833fe2a  LICENSE
+sha256  0d95e648469a711f5ec1e59e6d4492150ec65d968c1ea6c6d96154a92879997a  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk
index 963bbcb2b8..fe1776f79f 100644
--- a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk
+++ b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_VERSION = 5.0.9
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_VERSION = 5.0.8
 PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SOURCE = configobj-$(PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/c4/c7f9e41bc2e5f8eeae4a08a01c91b2aea3dfab40a3e14b25e87e7db8d501
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/87/17d4c6d634c044ab08b11c0cd2a8a136d103713d438f8792d7be2c5148fb
 PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE